Improvement in picker for wool



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HARRIS-W. AXFORD, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 93,946, dated 'August 24, 1869.

IMPROVEIWENT IN PICKER FIOR WOQL, 8m.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part ofthe same.

enable others skilled inthe vart to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication,iu which- Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of myimproved upholsterers picker.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view, partly in section, of the same.

Similar letters of' reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to iipholster-pickers; and

The improvement consists in the general arrangement of parts, whereby amore effective and simple machine is provided than those heretoforeknown.

A, in the drawing, represents the frame of my improved upholstererspicker.

This frame consists chiefly of two side-walls a a, which are connectedby suitable cross-bars, and in which the bearings of the. shaft,pertaining to this machine, are arranged.

B is a horizontal shaft, which has its bearings in the frame A, andwhich carries, between the walls a, the picker-cylinder C.

This cylinder C is composed of two heads b b, which are connected by asexies of slats, c c, which may be some distance apart from each other,as shown in tig. 1.

From the outer side of each slat, projects outward a series-of pointedpins or teeth, el.

`In front of the cylinder are, in the frame A, the hearings-of thefeed-rollers D D, of which 'the upper one :is np-and-down adjustable, itbeing drawn down upon the lower one by means of springs e e, shown iniig. 1.

Below the cylinder C is a' perforated inclined bottom, E, on which 'thepicked hair or moss can fall,

while the'dust and impurities will pass throughit.

A hood, F, is placed over the cylinder, to prevent.

any parts lofthe material from being thrown ofi" bythe cylinder.

Motion is imparted to ,the rollers D D and C, by

hand or other power, and is transmitted from the driving-shaft by belts,cogs, or otherwise.

A ily-wheel, G,.may be mounted on one of' the shafts H, or onthe shaftB, for regulating the moy tion.

The moss 'or hair to be picked isplaced upon a platform, I, in front ofthe feedrollers, and is, by the feed-rollers, carrie'd to the picker,which separates the' hair, and unravels and cleans it ready to be usedagain. p

The picked hair or moss, is carried along on the platform E, anddelivered out'of the machine in good The improved upholsterers picker,consisting of theV frame A a a, toothed cylinder C, guard-plates J,feedrollers D D, spring-attachment e, inclinedY bottom E, hood F,ily-wheel G, shafts H and B, and the drivingpulleys, all arranged andoperating together, as herein shown and described.

HARRIS XV. AXFORD.v

Witnesses:

G. W. FERGUSON, J. B. DoUeAN.

